Your speakers and your room both affect what you hear. Room EQ uses a measurement at your listening position to help correct an uneven sound.
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Sound also reaches you from the walls.
You hear the speaker directly, plus reflections from the room. These combine at your seat, making some notes louder and others quieter.
In the bass, this can make a kick drum sound boomy or leave some bass notes much weaker than others.
Sound paths · top view
Reflections travel further and arrive later. At different frequencies, they reinforce or cancel part of the direct sound.
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Your seat changes the bass.
Move the person or choose a position. Then switch on example EQ to see how reducing peaks changes the response.
Listening position
4 × 3 m room
Drag the person. You can also use the arrow keys.
Bass pattern
Brighter areas show a stronger resonance at 71 Hz. The graph includes all the room’s bass resonances.
Bass at your seat
Simulated response
Without EQFlat reference
Peaks are louder notes. Dips are quieter notes.
A more even response means a more even balance of bass notes. Switch on example EQ to compare.
Illustration only. This is not a measurement or a prediction of Life EQ results.
How this demo works
The map shows one standing-wave pattern, also called a room mode. The graph combines damped length, width and mixed modes in a 4 × 3 m rectangular room with one fixed source. This 2D model omits height, furniture and speaker directivity. The EQ example reduces positive peaks by 85%, up to a 12 dB cut, and leaves dips alone. It is not Life EQ’s correction algorithm. The graph is limited to ±24 dB. Arrow keys move the listener; hold Shift for larger steps or press Home to return to the starting position.
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What room EQ can fix.
EQ changes the level of selected frequencies before they reach the speakers. It works best alongside sensible speaker placement.
Use EQ to
Reduce prominent bass notes. Turn down peaks that make the bass sound uneven.
Adjust the overall balance. Bring the measured response closer to a target curve.
Correct for where you listen. Base the EQ on measurements around your usual seat.
Where EQ has limits
Deep cancellations. Adding more bass cannot reliably fill a dip caused by waves cancelling.
Echo and lingering sound. EQ does not replace acoustic treatment.
Uneven sound across the room. A correction for one seat will not be equally effective everywhere.
Measure before replacing your speakers.
Better speakers still interact with the same room. Different designs can behave differently, but an upgrade alone won’t remove room resonances.
A measurement helps you decide whether the problem needs a change in placement, acoustic treatment or EQ.
